HMS AGAMEMNON 1781 from scratch - scale 1/75

[AllanKP69]

James Lee is not helpfull for construction details.

Hi William,
Not sure what you are referring to, the masts, the tops, something else. The information from David Steel is probably the most worthwhile unless there are drawings for Agamemnon specifically.

While not appropriate for Agamemnon necessarily the 1719 Establishment pages at RMG give a lot of details that may be helpful for anyone interested for earlier vessels. It has informaation on the tops, trestle trees, masts, etc.

Couple pages as an example follows.




There are a number of high resolution drawings of masts and yards on the Wiki Commons site and hundreds in low resolution on the RMG Collections site.

 

[William1961]

Hi all,
Here some pictures of the standing rigging. Still some ratlines to do

 

[dockattner]

Congratulations on this milestone along the way.

 

[GrantTyler]

Hi all,
Here some pictures of the standing rigging. Still some ratlines to do

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Good morning. What a majestic model. Cheers Grant

 

[William1961]

Standing rigging first level is now completed for 95 %. I didn't count the knots but i'm not sad it is over. Next step : building the top masts and some yards.

 

[AllanKP69]

The construction of the lower masts is fantastic!

This came up on another Agamemnon build earlier. According to James Lees in The Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War, after about 1775 if there was a swifter like on the Agamemnon main mast only every sixth ratline extended to the swifter. It is great to see you started the lower six rows of ratlines starting on the second shroud for the first six rows as was done on the actual ships at that time. Nicely done. I have no idea why they did this and would love to find an answer. I thought it might have to do with the forward most shroud being served the entire length, but then there would be none tied to it, so I am at a loss on this. Beautiful model William!
Allan

 

[dockattner]

Very nice, William. An impressive effort!

 

[iutar]

Dear William! Do you know how to dye thread? If so, paint the rigging lanyards black.
Your stays are done correctly: the lanyards are black. But the lanyards on your shrouds are white, which is a mistake.
The fact is that on ships, after the standing rigging was finally tensioned, it was completely coated with tar. If these rigging elements weren't tarred, they would rot.
That's why the lanyards were always the same color as the shrouds and stays. Yours should be black.